Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07
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under such regulations as may be prescrib-
ed by the Q~uartermaster General.
Mr.. Robert T. Lincoln declares he will
not accept the nomination for Vice Presi-
dent and that he is not anxious for the nom
ination for President. He says that he
has seen enough of life at the White
House to convince him that it is "a gilded
prison."
= When Farmer E. D. Highly, of Tocsin,
ILL.,, went to his we'll to draw a pail of
water the other morning he found where
the water had been nothing but a black
hole, which up to date had been unfath-
cord of the bottom dropping out OF q well.
The Augusta Chronicle states that the
leading prohibitionists of Georgia do not
prohibition law, being satisfied with the
results of local option which has resulted
in prohibition prevailing, in one shape or
another, in l2O out of 12 counties in Geor-
gia. ''
"A Georgia colored woman named Mar
cissa, who weighs 4SO pounds, wished to
90 on q journey recently, and purchased
one railroad ticket for the purpose. But
the door of the car was not wide enough
to admit her, and as the conductor refused
to cut away the door-posts, she. had to
make the Journey in q baggage car. She
threatens to sitdown on those railroad Off
cials, but they hope she will refrain.
= The Jessamine county, KY, grand Jury
has excited much interest and earned gen.
uine praise by certain courageous indict-
ments against politicians. The list in
cludes a county judge, presented for as
sault and battery; a representative-elect,
indicted for carrying concealed weapons;
the county jailor, against whom the bill
was based on the reception of a fraudulent
vote, and so on.
An attempt to wreck a train for the
purpose of robbery is reported from Leb-
anon, o. About 2 o'clock Thursday morn
ing, as q train of eleven cars, with 500 pas
sengers, was returning from Cincinnati,
the engineer encountered at a point a mile
from Lebanon an obstruction made OF rail-
road ties and fence rails. By good fortune
the train had stopped only a short distance
before it to let of some passengers and
had not obtained sufficient speed to be Sc
riously injured when the obstruction was
reached.
TO John Sewer, whose bones now lie
in an unmarked grave near Decatur, Ala,
it is now proposed to erect q monument.
Colonel Sewer led one4of the attacking
columns at the famous battle of Kings
Mountain. In recognition of his gallant
ry in this fight, the legislature of North
Carolina voted him a sword. He subSe-
quently became the first Governor of Ten
nessee. The plan is to transfer his re-
mains to Knoxville, Tenn, and there to
erect q becoming monument.
At / O'Clock last Saturday morning one
hundred masked men took Charles Cole
man, colored, from the Jail at Flemings,
burg, KY, and hanged him to the railroad
trestle in rear of the Baptist Church. Cole
man was in Jail fora criminal assault made
the previous Monday on Miss Sweeney, of
Mayesville, who was visiting Mrs. Ring
wood, q widow, living near Flemingsburg.
Coleman, who worked on an adjoining
farm, broke down Mrs. Rim gWood's door,
knocked MIS-. Ringwood down and assault
ed Miss Sweeney. Both women positive
~ identified him when he was captured.
A New Orleans dispatch says: South
ern newspapers have recently stated that
the new regulation of the Cotton Exchage
of this city gave notice that after Septem-
Der l, cotton buyers in all interior towns
would deduct from bales weighing under
400 pounds ! cent per pound, and from
bales weighing under $50 pounds cent
per pound, rejecting all bales under 300
pounds. Superintendent Powers, of the
Exchange says that the two first state
ments were unfounded, but the third was
correct. No merchant can be compelled to
take a bale weighing less than 300 pounds.
Sioux City, Iowa, is to haye a corn
carnival, commencing on the 9Th of Octo-
Der in honor of the immense crop of corn
which is now being harvested in that pro-
life region. A corn palace, to a great eX-
tent, constructed ofand decorated with corn
and other grain products, is to be reared.
The principal streets will have triumphal
arches, adorned with statuary and picto-
rial representations in corn and grasses;
the ladies will wear ornaments of grain,
and corn will be enthroned asking.
At the Mercer county, Mo-, fair, last
Wednesday afternoon, Randall Blakslee, a
half-breed Indian, made.a balloon ascen-
sion, hanging to a trapeze' bar. The bal
loon shot up suddenly, giving Blakslee a
wrench, and he was unable to pull himself
on theb bar, but managed to old himself
up by the loop which he had drawn around
his wrist. After travelling about a mile
and q half, and reaching the altitude of
1900 feet, the balloon began to descend,
but the poor fellows strength gave out,
and when within 500 feet of the earth his
grip relaxed, and he fell, lighting on his
feet in q corn field, his thighs being broken
and driven into the trunk of his body.
The police of Charlotte, N. c., arrested
q few days ago a young man name j. l.
Green, upon the charge of the burglary OF
Mr.. W.. j. Yates residence. Some of the
stolen booty was found in his possession,
but it remains to be proven that he is the
man who entered the house. It is believ-
ed he had confederates in the work, but
still it is thought he is in a close place.
The Charlotte Chronicle says: The young
man Green is a South Carolinian, and is a
citizen of Sumter. He is about 10 years
old, and is a son of the late Judge Green,
who was the MISREPRESENTATION candi-
date for governor of South Carolina in
1874.
A dispatch of Friday from Waco, Tex
az. saws that every bridge in Hill county
was washed away by rains and the damage
to crops and farms will not fall short of
800, 900. In Bosque county and along the
line of the Sante Fe Railway the damage
is also very heavy. Of the little towns
here, Iredell, Whitney, Hico and Aquillo
have suffered most. The railroad compa-
MES have suffered severely. 1t is believed
that the Central and Missouri Pacific roads
are the heaviest losers. The Missouri Pa
ciic has a force of nearly 900 men at work
on the line near Grand View. A train on
the road was detained between Itasca and
Grand View from Monday night till Thurs
day evening. It vas out or the prairie
nine miles from any house, and many Of
the passengers suffered for lack of food.
Josiah Terrell was hanged in the Ohio
p%enitentiary at Columbus, at 1890 last
Friday morning. He proclaimed his in
nocence after he had been brought upon
the scaffold. The execution took place in
the annex at the penitentiary, and about
Gft,, Doreon r,;tnosSod IT. He SILENT well